Bailies

What you will notice is the very good coffee (from £1.65, supplied by local roasters, Bailies), the fantastic cakes and scones (around £1.80), and a reasonably priced menu of sandwiches, wraps and daily specials, such as red Thai vegetable curry.

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Do I really need to put Bailies in my coffee every morning?

miss-k2 Diary Entry miss-k2 2007

The Quene began to raige against all godlie and honest men; thair housses was oppressed by the Frenchemen; the lauchfull Magistratis, alsweall Provest as Bailies, war injustlie, and without all ordour, deposed from thair authoritie.

The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

Bailies, by virtue of their office, are invested with certain judicial and administrative powers within the burgh for which they are appointed.

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Mexican dances (Bailies) the two sexes do not speak, each retiring at the end of a dance to its own side of the room.

Ranching, Sport and Travel Thomas Carson

Michaelmas 1558, by command of the Queen Regent; and he conducted the affairs of the City in such an arbitrary manner, that in April 1559 he committed one of the Bailies and the Town-Clerk to prison.

The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

"Go away, Baldy!" cried the Bailies sharply, vexed by this intrusion on their moments of carouse; no one of them had a friendly eye for the old wanderer, in his blue coat, and dumb but for his beggar's badge and the child that clung to his hand.

Doom Castle Neil Munro

[251] Edward Hope, in 1560, was one of the Bailies of Edinburgh.

The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

Arm in arm they went out in front of the inn and walked along the bay, and the Provost and the Bailies were left mourning for their king.

Doom Castle Neil Munro

On another occasion he threatened all the Bailies with a similar imprisonment, if, during his absence, they failed in securing certain persons whom he named.

The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox